Outline:1

Hindrances to Prayer

1. Hypocrisy, Matthew 6:5
2. Vain Repetition, Matt 6:7
3. Disunity among the saints, Matthew 18: 19
4. Disagreement in family, 1Peter 3:7
5. Unforgiving spirit, Matthew 5:22, 24
6. Unbelief, James 1:6, 7; Matt 13:58
7. Selfishness, James 4: 1 – 3
8. Self-righteousness, Luke 18: 11, 12, 14
9. Rejection of the word, Deut 3:23 – 26; Pro 28:9; 1John 3:22
10. Sin Psa 66:18; Isa 1:15; 59:1 – 3

Outline:- 2

End time Characteristics of man, 2Timothy 3: 1 - 5

1. Lovers of themselves—self-centred, conceited, egotistical.
2. Lovers of money—greedy for money, avaricious.
3. Boasters—braggarts, full of great swelling words.
4. Proud—arrogant, haughty, overbearing.
5. Blasphemers—evil speakers, profane, abusive, foulmouthed, contemptuous, insulting.
6. Disobedient to parents—rebellious, undutiful, uncontrolled.
7. Unthankful—ungrateful, lacking in appreciation.
8. Unholy—impious, profane, irreverent, holding nothing sacred.
9. Unloving—hard-hearted, unnaturally callous, unfeeling
10. Unforgiving—“implacable, refusing to make peace, refusing efforts toward reconciliation.”
11. Slanderers—spreading false and malicious reports.
12. Without self-control—men of uncontrolled passions, dissolute, debauched.
13. Brutal—savage, unprincipled.
14. Despisers of good—haters of whatever or whoever is good; utterly opposed to goodness in any form.
15.  Traitors—treacherous, betrayers.
16. Headstrong—reckless, self-willed, rash.
17. Haughty—making empty pretensions, conceited.
18. Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—those who love sensual pleasures but not God.

William MacDonald

Anecdote: 1

Dangerous Prayer Training

Joanne Shetler, a Wycliffe Bible Translator in the Philippines, noticed that the new believers in the tribe she was working with did not pray as they should. So she prayed, “Lord, do whatever it takes to teach these people to pray.”

 About a month later, she was in a helicopter crash there and almost died. That event prompted the people to pray fervently, “Lord, don’t let her die because our book isn’t done.”  From then on, the people prayed.

Steven J. Cole

Anecdote: 2

Asking in Faith

When Hutson Taylor was sailing to China to begin his missionary work, his ship was in great danger. The wind had died, and the current was carrying them toward sunken reefs which were close to islands inhabited by cannibals—so close they could see them building fires on the shore. Everything they tried was to no avail.

In his journal, Taylor recorded what happened next: The Captain said to me, “Well, we have done everything that can be done.” A thought occurred to me, and I replied, “No, there is one thing we have not done yet.” “What is that?” he queried.

• Ministry127

Worhty Quotes:  

Prayer

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.”

—E.M. Bounds

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”

• John Bunyan

“Pray as if everything depends on God, then work as if everything depends on you.”

• Martin Luther

 

 

Grace & Peace e-periodical
Vol. 20 No. 02 March - April 2025

In this issue: -

Editorial: Prayer in Perilous Times

Perspective: “Lord, teach us to pray”

Outline-1:- Hindrances to Prayer

Outline-2:- End time Characteristics of man

Reflections:- Creation and Making

Study:- Two Levels of Spiritual Life

Anecdote-1: - Dangerous Prayer Training

Anecdote-2: - Asking in Faith